Monthly Archives February 2008

Finally We Are United in Video

Blu-ray stands victorious on the Battlefield of Formattedness with sword raised and head high while it’s cohorts do little jigs on the sidelines. HD DVD lies dead at it’s feet, the Format Wars finally over. And in his manor on a hill overlooking the the field of battle, DVD heaves a tired sigh of relief, [...] Read more »

Being a WordPress 2.5 Bubble Head.

I decided to take the day and use it for fiddling around with WordPress 2.5 a bit. I’ve had the nightly builds installed in my local Sandbox for a while now but I wanted to see how it performed online so I threw up a test install of WordPress and updated it to the latest [...] Read more »

Firefox 3’s Places-Drag and Drop Fixed in Nightly Builds

Drag and drop in Firefox 3’s "Places" Library (the old "Organize Bookmarks") now works properly at last or at least in today’s nightly build it does. Everyday for the last week or so the first thing I’ve done after the update to the nightly build installs itself is to head to the "Library" ("Show all [...] Read more »

JT Evening News-7th Edition

After a rather long absence, once again we are here with yet another edition of the JT Evening News (published whenever I feel like it) covering what kind of nonsense I’ve been up to with the site. So without further ado…
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MyBlogLog Gets a New Widget and so do I

MyBlogLog has a new "Recent Readers" widget [...] Read more »

Deaf Mom Turned Away by Steak ‘n Shake Follow Up

For those of you that are wondering how the situation is going with Karen Putz and Steak ‘n Shake, make sure you take a look at her follow up post above that brings things up to date. I recommend also reading Liz Fuller’s write up on the incident and subsequent interview with Karen since [...] Read more »

Firefox 3 beta 3: Disabling Extension Compatibility Check

For those of you that decided to try out Firefox 3 beta 3 and are pining away for their favorite plugins that may not currently be compatible with the new release, here’s a fairly easy workaround for disabling Firefox’s extension compatibility check…
Notice: This post is now badly out of date. Please read the updated post [...] Read more »

Another Snow Storm. Think We’ve had Enough?

What you don’t see in the above photo is that the paths around the snow mound are the top of a solid base about a foot thick  packed down by previous freezing rain and ice storms that came in between the many regular snow storms we’ve had so far this winter. It even held the [...] Read more »

‘Mozilla: For the Record’-A New Mozilla Blog

Mozilla, whose I site I’ve always thought as being somewhat difficult to navigate around and finding information tailored toward the average user and other interested parties, has decided to start a portal of said information in the form of a new Wordpress blog called Mozilla: For the Record. In the opening post by Asa Dotzler, [...] Read more »